William Butterfield was innate withinside London in 1814. His parents were nonindulgent non-conformists and ran a chemist shop in the Strand. He was one of nine tykes & was educated at the local school. At the age of Xvi, he was apprenticed to a builder around Pimlico, Thomas Arber, who late became bancrupt. He exposed architecture under E. L. Blackburne (1833–1836). From either 1838 to 1839, he was an helper to Harvey Eginton, an designer inside Worcester, where he became articled. He established his have architectural practice at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1840.

From either 1842, Butterfield he was taking part sustaining a Cambridge Camden Society, later The Ecclesiological Society. He contributed designs to the Society's journal, A Ecclesiologist. His involvement influenced his architectural style. He besides drew religious inspiration from either a Oxford Movement & in and of itself, he was super "High Church", despite his non-conformist upbringing. He was the Gothic revival architect, & intrinsically he reinterpreted a original Gothic style around Victorian terms. Several of his buildings were for religious utilise, although he besides intentional for colleges & schools.

Within 1884, Butterfield was the recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal. Around 1900, he died within London.

Buildings

Butterfield's buildings include:

All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1859) Balliol College, Oxford [http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/college/chapel/history/ Chapel] (1856&ndash7) A Cathedral of the Isles, Great Cumbrae, Scotland Coalpit Heath Keble College, Oxford (1876) Merton College, Oxford New Buildings (1864) Rugby School Chapel and Quadrangle (1875) St Alban's, Holborn St Augustine's College, Canterbury (1845) Winchester County Hospital